Blood Operative

one generic mana one black mana Creature — Vampire AssassinPower and toughness3/1

Lifelink

When this creature enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard.

Whenever you surveil, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return this card to your hand.

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Blood Operative rulings

2024-01-12
An ability that triggers "whenever you surveil" triggers after you're done surveilling, even if you have fewer cards in your library than the number of cards you're instructed to surveil. It even triggers if you have no cards in your library.
2018-10-05
If you surveil and put Blood Operative into your graveyard as you do so, its ability triggers once you've finished surveilling.
2018-10-05
No player may take actions between the time you choose to pay 3 life and the time you return Blood Operative to your hand.

Blood Operative keyword rules

Lifelink Rule 702.15

Lifelink is a static ability.

Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source’s controller, or its owner if it has no controller, to gain that much life (in addition to any other results that damage causes). See rule .

If an object changes zones before an effect causes it to deal damage, its last known information is used to determine whether it had lifelink.

The lifelink rules function no matter what zone an object with lifelink deals damage from.

If multiple sources with lifelink deal damage at the same time, they cause separate life gain events (see rules –10).

Multiple instances of lifelink on the same object are redundant.